Wisdom of The Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment

Wisdom of The Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment
Wayne W. Dyer

Bestselling author and personal development guru Wayne W. Dyer shows us how to apply the insight of 60 of the world's greatest thinkers to our daily lives, based on a powerful collection of writings, poems and sayings by luminaries of the past twenty-five centuries, including Rumi, Whitman, Jesus, Einstein, Buddha, Shakespeare and many others.In this powerful and inspirational book, Wayne Dyer interprets a collection of writings, poems and sayings by some of the greatest thinkers of the past twenty-five centuries, showing us how to apply their teachings to the here and now to give meaning to our lives.The book is based around 60 extracts of inspirational writing from luminaries of the past, including Buddha, Jesus, Michaelangelo, Rumi and Whitman. Among the contributions are words on the power of prayer by St. Francis of Assisi as well as thoughts on the importance of action by Mother Theresa.Wayne Dyer then goes on to explore fully the meaning of each piece of wisdom and show us how to actively apply them to our modern lives.The book can be used as a 60-day spiritual programme, with one entry being read a day, but has also been designed to be read all together or dipped into for instant wisdom.The writings are arranged thematically, for example: Work; Forgiveness; Laughter; Kindness; Inspiration; Balance; Hope.

Wayne W. Dyer

WISDOM of the AGES

Eternal Truths for Everyday Lives

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the publishers for permission to reprint the following works: ‘For Anne Gregory’ by William Butler Yeats: Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, from The Collected Works of W B Yeats, Vol. I: The Poems. Revised and edited by Richard J Finneran. Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Company; copyright renewed © 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost: From The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, © 1969 by Henry Holt & Co. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt & Co. Inc. ‘So That’s Who I Remind Me Of’ by Ogden Nash: From Good Intentions by Ogden Nash. Copyright © 1942 by Ogden Nash. By permission of Little, Brown and Company. ‘On Being a Woman’ by Dorothy Parker: From The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright 1991 by Viking Penguin. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin.

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To Our Son

Sands Jay Dyer

Bodhisattva Extraordinaire

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When you are dead,seek for your resting placenot in the earth,but in the hearts of men.

RUMI

Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table of Contents

Title Page (#ude61fe03-894f-5cd0-9e73-ce9a8a031586)

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Dedication (#u33368ebc-f8a0-5984-82c8-6bb62005641f)

Epigraph (#u20f64c14-1db2-5b48-8dc1-a00126ec26f2)

Introduction (#u27932b5f-fa2a-5aed-b3b1-990534cbc495)

Pythagoras and Blaise Pascal Meditation (#u10c02a26-da9c-54aa-95dc-e6c911877120)

Buddha Knowing (#u006a470c-5b61-5c22-8465-37b82398c59d)

Lao-tzu Leadership (#u442dcf7c-abc5-5d10-a94f-881ee8056a21)

Confucius Patience (#ueb6d5b54-1711-5bed-809f-1458f40e13a4)

Patanjali Inspiration (#ub547cadd-52d3-5d6c-9374-b432143def9c)

Marcus Tullius Cicero Triumph (#u96e17fc1-8662-595c-a6ec-de27a6114b51)

Jesus of Nazareth Being Childlike (#u390e43fd-16d7-5ffe-a266-dfb284eebd1d)

Epictetus Divinity (#u7cbde89a-a094-5c3d-b24a-802d53688d04)

Zen Proverb Enlightenment (#u8e9d4c94-6331-5c8c-98b9-444404dc960f)

Omar Khayyám The Now (#u8b7481ea-78ca-5f06-b0c3-4738d4f26a26)

St. Francis of Assisi Prayer (#u793172ea-b750-5fd1-b1a8-dfc36dd1e3f4)

Jalaluddin Rumi Grief As a Blessing (#u4bda60d9-e763-5ecd-8998-7bfc5645d28e)

Leonardo da Vinci Balance (#ufcc42285-a738-598b-ad43-280c2a10e7ed)

Michelangelo Hope (#u3dd526b2-7d31-553d-ac94-33e574e09e45)

Sir Edward Dyer Mind Power (#litres_trial_promo)

William Shakespeare Mercy (#litres_trial_promo)